[Genealib] Why do you rearrange your collection?

[Beth Oljace]

Here goes.

Our cataloger invented this several years ago.  I don't recommend this, 
though there is a bit of sadistic fun in watching non-genealogists 
wander around in increasing bewilderment.

We have 7 shelving sequences.  They are:  State documents (DOC), IND 
(regular Indiana history and everything that doesn't belong elsewhere), 
GEN (genealogy, other countries and states, surname books), AUT (books 
by Indiana authors), MAD (books about Madison County, where we're 
located), CH (County histories for the other 91 Indiana counties), CI 
(Census indexes)  Within each division, the books are shelved in DDC 
order.

We also "mess" with Dewey a little.  Instead of giving the Indiana 
Counties the standard DDC numbers (which group them geographically), we 
have them arranged in alphabetical order with commensurate numbers.

The whole thing is appalling, but it does work.  

Beth E. Oljace
Indiana Room Librarian
Anderson Public Library

-----Original Message-----
From: "Cheryl Smith" <cheryls at plano.gov>
To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:30:23 -0500
Subject: [Genealib] Why do you rearrange your collection?

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to rearrange our genealogy collection.  We have it in
> normal dewey call number order.  Nothing is pulled out into separate
> areas.  We are going to move the collection to a bigger area.  When we
> do I would like to have the collection rearranged.  I know that most of
> the genealogy collections out there are rearranged in some way.  I
> don't
> want to know how because we've discussed that recently.  I want to know
> why.  
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Cheryl Smith
> Public Services Librarian Senior
> Harrington Library
> 1501 18th St.
> Plano, TX  75074
> 972-941-7175
> 
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